If you haven’t heard by now, the Institute is hosting a full day tribute to and celebration of Henry Hudson’s voyage on the Hudson 400 years ago. Ours is with a twist though. We aren’t interested only in the last 400 years, we are thinking about the next 100. In the Wake of the Half [...]
Generally when we talk about air purification via plants, we are talking about street trees, forests, and vast green spaces. Most of the plants people keep indoors are for design and decoration purposes and their restorative benefits are an added benefit. People actually buy air purifiers to do the work that plants do in the [...]
African leaders are boycotting. American leaders are scaling down hopes. Copenhagen is starting to look like an exercise in mediocrity. And its a carbon intensive one at that. How many people are flying in again? On the national front, a delayed vote because of a partisan boycott has left our climate bill as non-existent. At [...]
The British Government recently released a map that forecasts the disastrous scenarios that could play out with a 4 degree (C) rise in temperature across the globe. It features nine categories of effects (including drought, sea-level rise, and permafrost) which can be toggled on and off. The selected category tab displays a “hot spot” on [...]
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx turns 100 this year. And to celebrate this momentous occasion, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space held a competition on the re-imagination of this place for its next 100 + years. The winning submission in the “ideas competition,” is called pUMp — [...]
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